I occasionally go through my old comments to see how things got received, see if I could improve my wording, things like that. General communications skill polishing. It’s not consuming as much as critically reviewing, but whatever.
Since I’m adding engagement on lemmy, and I do put some effort in to be amusing or informative or whatever (usually anyway), yes I do feel like I am helping. If I was on reddit or something, not so much.
makes community about video game arguments.
then makes community about not arguing with me.
My guess would be self-replicating biological organisms capable of significant rates of mutation.
But then my preferred solution to the paradox as a whole is basically the “nobody tries” idea.
I don’t think there’s tremendous reason to try to make ones-self detectable at long distances. It’s an expenditure of non-trivial resources for an uncertain result. Since there isn’t really any robustly sound logic for making the attempt outside of dramatized sci fi stories, I imagine a vanishingly small percentage of occurrences of intelligent life would make a serious, high-powered attempt at any point.
Don’t underestimate the power of shitposting.
That said, the Fediverse products are still behind in features, polish and ease-of-use. The mainstream prizes these surface-level things more than any others. It will take years of development still to fully catch up in that regard. So, it’s the long-haul.
Rigorous exercise might help. Just being able to vent some of those bottled-up frustrations while pumping your body will help process them a little bit. It’ll also physically tire you to potentially make sleeping a little bit easier.
I don’t know, I was too busy playing Starcraft.
edit: Wait, hold on, just remembered something. I’ll just leave this here. Not a rickroll or anything, while that’s tempting, I promise.
Neat question. Hotdogs are sandwiches imo.
That said, some types of investment provide additional advantages over simply appreciating in value. A stock can pay dividends, a house can be lived in, stuff like that. Could probably draw a distinction there. Additionally, some investments are guaranteed, like a savings bond. Could probably draw another there.
If I had to draw some clean line somewhere, I’d probably try define gambling as situations where you’re not intended to be able to “win money” on average, where investments are. The line is drawn via intention though, not anything quantitative. So, pretty inherently fuzzy.
Courageous citizens performing the necessary duty of watching for new drone types and capabilities, and tracking usage patterns. They surveil the surveillance system. Heroes one and all.
The core problem isn’t people needing to get from A to B at hypersonic speeds. It’s that they need to get there in a reasonable timeframe.
I would first off remove the need to commute long distances regularly by putting amenities closer to residential areas with appropriate zoning and encouraging work-from-home where practical.
It’s easy to get caught up in all that “cool factor”, but if you really think about it, “cool” is just a stupid person trap.
If you’re really serious about it, look at the fundamental problem it is trying to solve, and consider if there are any more efficient, less expensive ways of addressing that core issue.
One thing I’d recommend is to start a little less all-in. You don’t have to go straight into backpacking out to the middle of nowhere and roughing it, you can start with car camping at a for-pay campground that’ll have some basic amenities, and just pitch a small tent there.
This’ll give you a chance to practice some basic skills in a less demanding environment before you really have to fully rely on them. Won’t cost much, and you’ll still be getting a chance to unwind a bit. Then once you’re more comfortable with your skills you can expand your horizons.
This works particularly well if you’re mostly a single issue voter. If you’re about the environment above all else, for instance, the Sierra Club’s recommendations are pretty solid. If it’s guns, guns and only guns, the NRA is your group.
For small local races you might have to do some homework yourself though, Sierra Club doesn’t always discuss who is running for your local school board.
They’ll usually have a website and other online presences that’ll let you get a sense for what they stand for. If its a really, really small community, maybe just send them an email or phone call and ask them.
My theory is that as people get more success in life, they tend to get “busier”. They have families, careers, hobbies they’ve invested time in, money to take travel vacations, etc. They just do more “stuff”. This results in less time and interest towards getting into arguments with randos on the internet.
The internet is extremely accessible and economically inexpensive though, so almost everyone can get on here if they want, regardless of any personal degree of any sort of life proficiencies.
Together, these factors result in it being the mass of humanity with some of the cream skimmed off. So that’s what we tend to see around us, the internet is the skim milk of humanity. Then to avoid all the watery garbage so prevalent everywhere, we further clump into more segmented communities where we can find more like-minded people to associate with, simply because that’s more enjoyable.
This is one of the reasons I think it’s important to actually put effort into interacting on here, to try to help prevent it from worsening before we can address some of the underlying technical problems it has introduced into our societies.
Meme faces are really going downhill. Is this some attempt to be a play on “genetic health” or something? They used to portray emotions, not exaggeratedly malformed bone structure.
The guy on the right, if he be so wise in the ways of science, should be using the word “massive” instead of “heavier”.
Yes, sometimes. Though I try to remember that one of the reasons for that phenomenon is just that new people are entering the environment every day, something that will never end. It’s easy to think it’s always the same people arguing, but it’s not. There’s just a lot of different people in the world.
When I think it’s possible to try to improve the discourse over what we’ve seen in the past, I’ll sometimes make an attempt. When I have the time and energy for it anyway, I don’t always.
Ukraine drops mobilization age by 2 years and suddenly gets big influx of new weapons.
Putin: Okay, how about a ceasefire?
Wouldn’t you want a pediatric hepatobiliary surgeon? A four month old is going to be a tricky case, I’d think.
You sorely overestimate how easy it is to get a trained animal to walk in a perfectly straight line. They do not get magical perfect-line-walking powers just because they are animals.
If you look at the Trump candidacy and things like qanon, it’d be hard to argue that the internet isn’t making inroads. My generation let this go on for long enough, it’s not about the lulz anymore. Lots of people are getting hurt, and it can still get worse.